Republican Bayou/Cauci Saturday election results thread (first results @3pm ET?)

[Badger]

Reminder, profanity is not allowed. Trying tricks to get around the filters does not reflect well on your permanent record.

Sorry about that.

Trump loses Maine and and its " oh my gawd Ted Cruz is the 45th president "

God willing!

Yes, god willing Cruz will beat Trump so we won't have a crass, egocentric, half crazy , wildly extreme nominee .

Oh wait.......

[Badger]

It's sad to see the GOP implode over itself like this. The party should have noticed the warning signs

What warning signs? You and the other TRUMP haters are causing the implosion.

How are we causing the problem? Trump is doing that himself.

You are uniting against TRUMP instead of coalescing around him. You are causing the implosion.

It’s not a normal treatment of the frontrunner and it’s one indicative of having the desire to stop him and not thinking about the consequences in the general.

For the good of the party THAT IS WHY we're against him, me and so many others will never vote for him because he can't come up with decent policy positions, his campaign has brought out the worst in people with passionate xenophobia, racism, etc., and we're fighting to prevent that.

By nominating Ted Cruz?!?!?

[Badger]

Voting for _trump is not thinking about the consequences in the general. Thankfully, the party is refusing to do that en masse.

Show me how any Establishment hack wins in the general.
TRUMP is the only one who brings a lot of crossover Democratic votes.

Yet it gets cancelled out with the turn off from Hispanics and Republicans who won't vote for Trump. Hispanics will cause Trump to lose and rightfully so.

Republicans will come home for the general. Hispanics are not needed.

Lmao!

Stupidest thing posted on Atlas in a long time. And that's saying something.

Oh, plus the casual racism of "F$%k the needs and considerations of over 1/5 the American people" is tres magnifique!

[Badger]

Voting for _trump is not thinking about the consequences in the general. Thankfully, the party is refusing to do that en masse.

Show me how any Establishment hack wins in the general.
TRUMP is the only one who brings a lot of crossover Democratic votes.

Yet it gets cancelled out with the turn off from Hispanics and Republicans who won't vote for Trump. Hispanics will cause Trump to lose and rightfully so.

Republicans will come home for the general. Hispanics are not needed.

lol, trump voters are dying by the day, the hispanic opulation will only grow

Yes, but in 2016, they are not needed.

Lol k, Imma be laughing when Hispanics come out in DROVES for Clinton and then you blame Republicans for not turning out to vote....

Edit: Florida Hispanics are become more Democratic now, becoming more like the national average, you really are wrong here.

I agree that appealing to Hispanics is a good idea, but TRUMP can easily win without Florida.

No, he can't.

Yes He can.

How?

By winning Michigan and Pennsylvania.  

You can't be serious.....

[Badger]

It's sad to see the GOP implode over itself like this. The party should have noticed the warning signs

What warning signs? You and the other TRUMP haters are causing the implosion.

How are we causing the problem? Trump is doing that himself.

You are uniting against TRUMP instead of coalescing around him. You are causing the implosion.

It’s not a normal treatment of the frontrunner and it’s one indicative of having the desire to stop him and not thinking about the consequences in the general.

For the good of the party THAT IS WHY we're against him, me and so many others will never vote for him because he can't come up with decent policy positions, his campaign has brought out the worst in people with passionate xenophobia, racism, etc., and we're fighting to prevent that.

By nominating Ted Cruz?!?!?

By nominating not _trump. And if that means Cruz, so be it. Cruz does not set the party back any further with minorities than it is at the moment; _trump destroys it.

Anyways, I'm going to be out for a few minutes. Hopefully _trump won't lose any more delegates while I'm gone; there's no more voting so there's no way for that to be done, but I wouldn't put it past him. He is a remarkable man.

HOW?!? Vosem, I like you and we share the disgust for Trump, but you happen to be the post that broke my camel's back. Can we all PLEASE stop saying Ted Freakin' Cruz is anything close to rational/mainstream/the savior of the GOP because he is at least an iota more polished than Trump??

Rallying around Cruz to stop Trump is akin to countering swallowed poison by shooting oneself in the throat.

[Badger]

Voting for _trump is not thinking about the consequences in the general. Thankfully, the party is refusing to do that en masse.

Show me how any Establishment hack wins in the general.
TRUMP is the only one who brings a lot of crossover Democratic votes.

Yet it gets cancelled out with the turn off from Hispanics and Republicans who won't vote for Trump. Hispanics will cause Trump to lose and rightfully so.

Republicans will come home for the general. Hispanics are not needed.

Yes Hispanics are needed, you're going to throw out the fastest growing demographic in America? We NEED Hispanics to win states like Florida, Colorado, Nevada, etc., give me a break

Florida are different kind of Hispanics. The other states are lost causes.

This is completely true. Hispanics aren't one race, white guys. Trump said something about Mexicans, not Cubans (FL). The Cubans and Mexicans actually don't get along really well.

Nevada is lost. Colorado is the only state at risk with a bad comment about Mexicans. Most Mexicans live in Cali, Arizona and Texas.

Most Hispanics also know when an old white guy talks about deporting "Mexicans", he means everyone from south of the Rio Grande. That brings in the growing Hispanic populations in swing states like VA, NC, even GA (maybe), and yes FL too.

[Badger]

Stupidest thing posted on Atlas in a long time. And that's saying something.

Oh, plus the casual racism of "F$%k the needs and considerations of over 1/5 the American people" is tres magnifique!

Trying to impress me with your French? Look Badger, there is no way any Republican is going to win a significant percentage of the Hispanic vote, so why even try? Best double down on whites and try to win PA and MI.

President George W. Bush says hello.

For that matter so does President Romney, which he probably would've been if he'd carried even the same share of Hispanic and Asian voters as even McCain's (which again, even that was lousy compared to W's.)

[Badger]

Most Hispanics also know when an old white guy talks about deporting "Mexicans", he means everyone from south of the Rio Grande. That brings in the growing Hispanic populations in swing states like VA, NC, even GA (maybe), and yes FL too.

Can you count to 269 Badger? You know how many states you need to win?

Try drawing a Republican victory map without FL, CO, VA, or NC. Or at least one that doesn't involve the ludicrous notion of making PA or (lol) MI flip for the first time in almost 30 years. Not to mention it's not like the entire country doesn't rightly interpret "doubling down on the white vote" as full of racial animosity, and thereby repels millions of white swing voters, especially under the age of 40. The Republican Party being branded as the home of cranky middle aged white people is not a selling brand nationally.

So yes, MY math is just fine thank you.

[Badger]

It's sad to see the GOP implode over itself like this. The party should have noticed the warning signs

What warning signs? You and the other TRUMP haters are causing the implosion.

How are we causing the problem? Trump is doing that himself.

You are uniting against TRUMP instead of coalescing around him. You are causing the implosion.

It’s not a normal treatment of the frontrunner and it’s one indicative of having the desire to stop him and not thinking about the consequences in the general.

For the good of the party THAT IS WHY we're against him, me and so many others will never vote for him because he can't come up with decent policy positions, his campaign has brought out the worst in people with passionate xenophobia, racism, etc., and we're fighting to prevent that.

By nominating Ted Cruz?!?!?

By nominating not _trump. And if that means Cruz, so be it. Cruz does not set the party back any further with minorities than it is at the moment; _trump destroys it.

Anyways, I'm going to be out for a few minutes. Hopefully _trump won't lose any more delegates while I'm gone; there's no more voting so there's no way for that to be done, but I wouldn't put it past him. He is a remarkable man.

HOW?!? Vosem, I like you and we share the disgust for Trump, but you happen to be the post that broke my camel's back. Can we all PLEASE stop saying Ted Freakin' Cruz is anything close to rational/mainstream/the savior of the GOP because he is at least an iota more polished than Trump??

Rallying around Cruz to stop Trump is akin to countering swallowed poison by shooting oneself in the throat.

Cruz is better than _trump because defeating _trump will show that childishness and basing your campaign entirely around wanting more aggressive immigration policy will result in an unsuccessful campaign. At this point, we're trying to make sure the smallest amount of damage possible is inflicted on the party. If the most we can reduce it by is one iota, well, at least that iota won't be around to hurt us.

But there ARE other viable options (well, option) available. Cruz is just as awfully electorally and politically. Adopting HIM as the vehicle to Stop Trump is ludicrous.

[Badger]

The Republican party is doing a good job of telling Hispanics, Arabs, Blacks, Asians and practically every minority to screw off with Trump's nomination

Wrong again. All Mexicans are Hispanics. All Hispanics are not Mexicans. Especially those who live in FL.
Arabs ?? Muslims are 1% of the US population, concentrated in large metros like NEW YORK.
Blacks?? Trump didn't say anything bad about Black people. Where do you make this stuff up? Trump is likely to win 10% of Blacks with a much lower turnout this time, for obvious reasons.
Asians?? "China is beating us" has nothing to do with Asians living in the US. Many Asians I know support Trump.

Ah, well that seals it then.

[Badger]

Maine caucus so far (1 caucus site out of 22):
Cruz     49.8%
Trump  30.8%
Kasich  10.5%
Rubio     7.6%

What? The entire state has only 22 caucus sites?

Looks that way:
http://mainegop.com/caucus/

Most counties have only one caucus site, except for the most populous or largest geographically, which have up to 3.  And there are only 16 counties in Maine.

Incidentally, although the media narrative will never touch this depth of analysis, it's actually not surprising that Cruz won Maine. When most of a fairly large state has only ONE freaking polling place PER COUNTY, this is exactly the type of system that places an emphasis on the True Believers and not on more un-involved supporters like Trump's.